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Oyster mushrooms

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Oyster mushrooms

Oyster mushrooms have been grown commercially in New Zealand since the 1990s. They are large fleshy fungi with a mild flavour.

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Maggy Wassilieff, Mushrooms and other cultivated fungi – Speciality mushrooms, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/photograph/16825/oyster-mushrooms (accessed 25 June 2026).

Story by Maggy Wassilieff, published 1 March 2009.